The following procedure for the installation of water mains and extensions thereof is intended as an alternative procedure to any other presently authorized by ordinance or law, and is not intended in any way to be exclusive.
(A) When the City Council determines that the public interest and necessity demand the acquisition, construction and completion of a water main to undeveloped areas of the city not yet adequately served with water, for the purpose of providing those areas with water service, and appropriates money out of the treasury of the city for these public improvements, no person shall be permitted to connect his or her property to the water main nor receive water service from the city through the water main until the property owner has paid to the city the proportionate share of the cost of the water main with respect to the property of the property owner to be served; and no application, either by petition or otherwise, shall be approved by the City Council for the installation and completion of a water main under this section unless and until the property owners to be benefitted or a sufficient number thereof shall have paid to the city, or agreed to pay such proportionate share of the cost of the water main as in the opinion of the council insures the payment of the cost of the public improvement. These payments shall be in addition to any other fee prescribed by any ordinance of the city or by the municipal ordinance for the installation and connection of laterals with the water main reaching to the property of the property owners to be served.
(B) When the Council determines the public interest of the city will be served by the extension of water mains into new areas not adequately served with water, no person shall be permitted to make a connection with the extension water main until the property owner whose property shall be served by the extension water main shall have paid to the city his or her proportionate share of the cost of the extension water main, together with a proportionate share of the cost of the original water main, and no application for a connection or service from the extension water main shall be approved unless and until the person shall have paid to the city his or her proportionate share of the cost of the extension water main, together with a proportionate share of the cost of the original water main.
(C) From and after the effective date of this chapter no new water mains or extensions of existing water mains designed to serve an area of the city not yet adequately served by water shall be installed by the city under this section until the following conditions shall have been performed and the following requirements fulfilled:
(1) Whether initiated by the property owners by petition or initiated by the Council itself by resolution, the council shall cause a map or plat to be prepared by the City Engineer and filed with the City Clerk, which map or plat shall show the exterior boundaries of the entire area proposed or designed to be eventually served by the proposed public improvement, or in lieu thereof a written description of the area to be served by the public improvement, together with an estimate of the total cost of the initial improvement.
(2) The adoption of a resolution by the Council which shall prescribe a minimum initial contribution to be paid by the property owners of the area to be benefitted by the construction of the initial unit of the public improvement, based upon a percentage of the total estimated cost, which in all cases shall be sufficient in amount to satisfy the Council that the construction cost will be paid.
(3) The approval by the Council by resolution of a sum to be paid by the property owner for each connection with either a water main or any extension thereof, which sum shall be recommended by the City Manager and shall be determined upon an equitable basis, which shall represent the proportionate share that the property owner should bear of the cost of new water main in relation to its entire cost; or if the property owner's connection is to be made with an extension of an existing water main then the sum to be paid by the property owner shall be determined upon an equitable basis so as to provide that the property owner shall pay a proportionate share of the cost of the water main, together with an additional amount which represents his or her proportionate share of the cost of the extension of the water main.
(4) The same method provided by division (3) hereinabove for determining the cost to be borne by the property owner for a connection with an extension water main shall apply in case the property owner desires to connect with any new extension of an existing water main and previously constructed, extensions thereof, namely, the property owner shall be required to pay his or her proportionate share of the cost of the original water main, together with his or her proportionate share of the cost of any or all extensions thereof.
('61 Code, § 24.88) (Ord. 257, passed - - )